16:9 screen so perfect for videos. No Spotity app for Windows 8 yet AFAIK but you can use Xbox Music which also offers free music streaming. Netflix app is available if you switch the region to US under control panel and works fine with your VPN/DNS provider. Web browsing is fast as IE10 metro app is really good and even supports Flash so you can watch iSky on it.

Battery life is about 9.5 hours for me when browsing the web. The only thing you will find lacking maybe is the app store which is only getting better. Facebook app will be released anytime now as it was announced late last month.

I love my RT, there are a lot of negative reviews around, but I just ignore those. You can get Netflix, but you have to change region to United States in Control Panel to install it, you can then change back to NZ and it will work fine. I have Plex on an old laptop and stream to the RT no problems at all. The email app isn't the best, but with the 8.1 update there is Outlook.

Battery life is fantastic, display is pretty damn good. Sound through the inbuilt speakers is adequate, but with headphones its great. I have heaps of useful apps on mine and a few games, unfortunately there is no Spotify, well not at the moment anyway. Hopefully it does come. Nor is there Chrome Browser, but IE from the desktop works fine.

For the price you are getting a great machine with extra ports that aren't found on iPads. Personally though, I would spend a bit extra and get a touch or type keyboard.

All in all, its a excellent buy that doesn't get enough respect. I see this as people being swayed by the iPad, but it is so much more useful than an iPad, especially with Office.

I quite like the MS Tablets, they are the closest things to productivity devices of that nature that exist in my opinon, however they have two fatal flaws. Pro needs to have the same form factor as the RT, and Office needs to be INCLUDED in the purchase price. In my opinion without those two things, it will not be the powerhouse it could be.